The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) detailed charges against Iranian operatives involved in the plot to assassinate Donald Trump during the recent presidential campaign should dispel any skepticism about US national security threats emanating from [...]
This year’s US election cycle was marked by increasingly brazen attempts by foreign actors to interfere and influence voters. Iran orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump and successfully accessed documents fr [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CBS News to discuss faux bomb threats at US polling places that originated from Russian domains. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
The Kremlin is known for testing disinformation strategies in its “backyard” before applying them globally. Last week in Moldova, the presidential election and constitutional referendum on EU membership presented Russia with such an opportunity. Rus [...]
Senior Fellow Bret Schafer joined CNN to discuss the evolving information space around the 2024 US election, including false, manipulated videos of alleged election irregularities which have been traced back to Russian threat actors. watch here [...]
Influencers and content creators play a critical role in today’s information environment as opinion makers and trusted voices. As a result, influencers and their online communities have become targets for malign actors seeking to undermine confidenc [...]
The decentralized nature of election administration in the United States means that every state—and even election jurisdiction—has its own rules for voting and ballot counting. In 2020, variances in election procedures were misconstrued, and in some [...]
Generative AI programs can be used to churn out content parroting false narratives within seconds and produce sophisticated fake images, videos, and audio that are increasingly indistinguishable from authentic material. The widespread accessibility [...]
Few national contexts offer a more disturbing picture of Russian malign foreign interference than Moldova’s. As the country readies for critical elections on October 20, it also faces a barrage of Russian hybrid attacks of remarkable scale and inten [...]
The complexities of the information space are eroding trust in election processes. The information space, where Americans work, learn, engage, and entertain themselves online, is increasingly opaque and fragmented. The major social media platforms h [...]
The Ukrainian president’s visit to a Pennsylvania arms factory was partisan but not election interference. On September 27, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment against three Iranian intelligence agents accused of running a “hac [...]
This is the first in a series of reports covering online conversations related to the security and administration of the 2024 US elections. These reports are meant to highlight key narrative trends in the election space, including but not limited to [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson spoke at a panel discussion at the McCain Institute about the release of a report entitled "Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age". watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and comment [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson joined CNBC to discuss US foreign adversaries' motivations for interfering in the 2024 US presidential election and the state of the race. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary [...]
Rachael Dean Wilson with the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a former aide to Sen. John McCain is tracking the disinformation landscape. She believes AI has the potential to fuel election disinformation in ways voters cannot easily detect. "I th [...]
Co-Managing Director Rachael Dean Wilson joined "The Final 5" on FOX 5 Washington DC to discuss challenges to public trust in US elections as the 2024 presidential election nears. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary [...]
ASD Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined C-SPAN Washington Journal to discuss and answer questions about foreign interference threats to the 2024 US elections. watch here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of [...]
Despite a lower profile in the national debate, the tools, tactics, motivations, and actors associated with foreign interference in US elections have evolved significantly since Russia’s “sweeping and systematic” 2016 operation. The Cybersecurity an [...]
Co-Managing Director David Salvo joined the Center for a New American Security's Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend, alongside the International Republican Institute's Brady Hills, for an episode of the Brussels Sprouts podcast to discuss Russia [...]
Often criticized for their lack of mettle in combatting foreign interference, European institutions have shown signs of increased combativeness in recent weeks. A whole bevy of cash-for-influence, election interference, and espionage cases have been [...]
Senior Fellow David Levine joined a panel discussion with the Embassy of Canada and International IDEA to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on elections, including its potential uses and innovations and the risks it presents. watch [...]
America's elections are under unprecedented threat. From foreign interference in the 2016 presidential race to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the integrity of our democratic process has been repeatedly targeted in recent years. Safeguarding it agai [...]
Executive Summary In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population is heading to the polls. One of the biggest of these contests is the 2024 European Parliament elections from June 6–9, in which 366 million voters in the union’s 27 member states wil [...]
Experts examined five case studies—in France, Sweden, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ukraine—to highlight effective practices as half the world’s population heads to the polls. WASHINGTON, DC — The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the [...]
Senior Fellow David Levine joins Joshua Garland of ASU, Noah Praetz of the Elections Group, and Paul Fagan of the McCain Institute to discuss foreign threats to US elections and the motivations of foreign actors for targeting them. watch here Th [...]
Moldova is due to hold its next presidential election in autumn this year. Laurențiu Pleșca and David Levine write that given the high risk of Russian interference, bolstering the country’s electoral integrity should be a key priority ahead of the v [...]
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined a panel at SXSW 2024 to discuss how artificial intelligence will impact democratic institutions and elections moving forward. She was joined by Boston University's Joan Donovan, Center fo [...]
Days before New Hampshire’s presidential primary, up to 25,000 Granite State voters received a mysterious call from “President Joe Biden.” He urged Democrats not to vote in the primary because it “only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect [...]
“Look up SMARTMATIC and tweet me what you think?” tweeted Rudy Guiliani, then-US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, in the weeks after the 2020 US presidential election. It was part of a broader campaign to delegitimize the election by castin [...]
Introduction The typical local election official in the United States is a white woman who is older than 50, earns more than $40,000, does not have a college degree, and is less likely today than in the past to have extensive experience in electio [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States released “The ASD AI Election Security Handbook” as a resource for elections officials responding to unprecedented threats to election security su [...]
Taiwan recently reaffirmed the strength of its democracy by successfully administering its elections last month in defiance of threats from China and elsewhere, but those threats and others created an emphasis on election security that continues to [...]
In 2024, more voters will head to the polls than ever before across the world and in the United States. However, elections by themselves do not guarantee democracy, and as the 2024 presidential elections heats up, it’s important that the U.S. consid [...]
False narratives, new technologies, and the potential for political violence are intensifying an already fraught election cycle. Read more here The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. [...]
The recent Taiwanese elections provide important insights into the tools and tactics the People’s Republic of China (PRC) might use when election results matter to its leadership. Similarly, Taiwanese authorities’ vigilance and responsiveness to Bei [...]
This year’s US presidential primaries will determine who will lead the country come January 2025 amid growing autocratic threats to American democracy. Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund are monitoring and a [...]
As we step into 2024, an unprecedented four billion people globally are gearing up to participate in what is set to be the largest election year in history. At the forefront of this democratic marathon is Taiwan, whose January elections not only ina [...]
Democratic backsliding has been a defining feature of modern politics and the transatlantic space has not been immune to this trend. The subversive effect of autocratic efforts to undermine democracy has concerned leaders across Europe and the Unite [...]
Last month, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a new system, the Alabama Voter Integrity Database (AVID) that he said would improve the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls by comparing the state’s voter registration information to the st [...]
Executive Summary Ukraine has one of the most vibrant civil societies in the world. In the decade since it launched and led the Revolution of Dignity, Ukrainian civil society has held successive governments’ feet to the fire while at the same time [...]